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When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.

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Book, Writing, Underwear

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Apr 02, 2013

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Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

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Bird, Would Be, Four

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He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

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Autumn, Felt, Dies

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And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life.

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Fear, Love Life, Men

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Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.

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Angel, Trying, Coins

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In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.

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Children, Years, Way

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.300, Penguin UK

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Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

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Memories, Opportunity, Men

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 16, 2013

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What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

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Uncles, Father, Nephew

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This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

World, Responsible, Said

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.109, Penguin UK

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A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

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Pain, Cranes, Falcon

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, p.44, Penguin UK

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Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

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Crush, Heart, Men

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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

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Goes On, Fame, Hours

Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

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Country, Latin, Europe

Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

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Eye, Water, Naked

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his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

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Pain, Feelings, Desire

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Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

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President, Drs, Conservative

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An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

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Dream, Memories, Gold

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He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.

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War, Circles, Knowing

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[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

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Limits, Captains, Overwhelmed

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He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

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Crush, Children, Past

"One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.

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Orange, Anxiety, Bells

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In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.

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Strong, Sleep, Dust

"One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (p. 404), 1967.

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The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

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Glasses, Broken, Laughing

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.27, Penguin UK

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Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.

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Brother, Earthquakes, Details

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There had never been a death so foretold.

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Born: March 6, 1927
Died: April 17, 2014
Occupation: Novelist
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